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The Torrents of Spring
Travelling home through Frankfurt, young Sanin falls in love with an Italian confectioner's daughter, becomes engaged, and throws it away for a rich married woman. An old man, he remembers it all.
The opening
Никогда ещё он не чувствовал такой усталости — телесной и душевной.
Never had he felt such weariness of body and of spirit.
Целый вечер он провёл с приятными дамами, с образованными мужчинами; некоторые из дам были красивы, почти все мужчины отличались умом и талантами — сам он беседовал весьма успешно и даже блистательно… и, со всем тем, никогда ещё то «taedium vitae», о котором говорили уже римляне, то «отвращение к жизни» — с такой неотразимой силой не овладевало им, не душило его.
He had passed the whole evening in the company of charming ladies and cultivated men; some of the ladies were beautiful, almost all the men were distinguished by intellect or talent; he himself had talked with great success, even with brilliance... and, for all that, never yet had the taedium vitae of which the Romans talked of old, the 'disgust for life,' taken hold of him with such irresistible, such suffocating force.
Translation
- Constance Garnett, The Torrents of Spring (The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, vol. XI), New York, 1897Macmillan and Co.Garnett's complete translation of the novel.Public Domain
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